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Allegedly for every time you miss opening the chest with regular picks an item in the chest disappears, so there would then be a benefit to using the special pics, just from what I recall reading from the patch.

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Allegedly for every time you miss opening the chest with regular picks an item in the chest disappears, so there would then be a benefit to using the special pics, just from what I recall reading from the patch.

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Yeah, but items in the chest are next to worthless anyway. Due to the large item count the chance of loosing a good item is very small. Say there are two nice items our of about 100 in a level 6 chest, there is a 1 in 50 chance that something of some value "poofs". Chance of some thing "poofing" is maybe once every 4 times I open a chest with regular picks. So 1 in 200 chests chance I loose something worth maybe 25k. This is not at all a justification to use a very rare one-time-use item. This needs to be fixed somehow.

What I would like to see is that a key like that gives you a chance of opening a level 7 box the next time and get a major Artie. That gives the t hunters a reason to keep hunting for these hard to find level 7 maps.

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level 6 vs level 7 treasure: I can say level 7 not worth the efforts.
In the time you do a level 7, you can do 2 level 6.
Lev 7 has just 1 essence and 5k more than a level 6 and the skeleton key is useless

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Yeah, but items in the chest are next to worthless anyway. Due to the large item count the chance of loosing a good item is very small. Say there are two nice items our of about 100 in a level 6 chest, there is a 1 in 50 chance that something of some value "poofs". Chance of some thing "poofing" is maybe once every 4 times I open a chest with regular picks. So 1 in 200 chests chance I loose something worth maybe 25k. This is not at all a justification to use a very rare one-time-use item. This needs to be fixed somehow.

What I would like to see is that a key like that gives you a chance of opening a level 7 box the next time and get a major Artie. That gives the t hunters a reason to keep hunting for these hard to find level 7 maps.

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I have lost many good items in my level 6s due to the items in the chest breaking becuase of failing. How do i know this, simple-in the EC grid view all the "good" items, gold, regs, tasty treats, sash/shield/orb, keys, pardons, etc etc etc are at the top of my grid, if one of those grid squares are empty i know i lost a good item.

I would never use a master key on a lvl 6 though. I WOULD however save them to use on 7s i get. (I WANT THE COFFIN).

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